Parts of the Nervous System
Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System.
What are the two parts of the Nervous System?
Cells that give, receive, and handle information.
What are neurons?
Neurons that receive information from a person's surroundings and send it to the brain.
What are sensory neurons?
The two main divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System.
What are the Autonomic and and Somatic Nervous Systems?
This system works through hormones instead of neurons.
What is the endocrine system?
The brain and the spinal cord.
What are the two parts of the central nervous system?
The part of a neuron that gather information.
What are dendrites?
Neurons that receive information from the brain and take it to specific parts of the body so we can interact with our environment.
What are motor neurons?
The division of the Peripheral Nervous System that acts automatically.
Insulin
What is a hormone produced by the pancreas that tells cells to absorb sugar.
The cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem.
What are the three main parts of the brain?
The part of the cell that transmits information from the cell body to the next neuron.
What is the axon?
Neurons between other neurons that are processing, sorting, and storing information.
What are interneurons?
The fight or flight response is controlled by this system even though it involves your skeletal muscles which you are able to control with conscious thought.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The central controller for many hormones that is in the middle of your brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
The part of the brain where your big thinking and conscious or voluntary actions are controlled.
What is the cerebrum?
Fatty tissue that wraps some axons and makes transmitting information faster.
What is the myelin sheath?
Neurons that send information from your brain to your muscles.
What are motor neurons?
Digesting food, heart rate, breathing, hormone release by glands.
What a few of the bodily functions controlled by the autonomic nervous system?
When the Autonomic Nervous System is jolted into action by fear, it triggers the release several hormones, including this one, that tells the liver to release sugar stores so the body can use the sugar for energy.
This part of the brain is called the "little cerebrum."
What is the cerebellum?
Chemicals that transmit information from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
Neurons that send information from your senses to your brain.
What are sensory neurons?
Within the context of how our bodies are controlled: Reaching for a snack, jumping on a box, sitting down to rest, giving a hug.
What are a few activities controlled by the Somatic Nervous System.
The gland that makes a hormone specifically targeted to cause stem cells to develop into certain types of white blood cells.
What is the thymus?